Heck is a
minced oath
A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics. An example is "gosh ...
for "
Hell
In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history sometimes depict hells as eternal destinations, such as Christianity and I ...
". It may also refer to:
People
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Heck (surname)
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Henry Wilson Allen (1912–1991), American author and screenwriter, one of whose pen names was Heck Allen
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Heck Thomas (1850–1912), American Old West lawman nicknamed "Heck"
Places
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Heck, North Yorkshire, England
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Heck railway station
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Heck, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Other uses
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Heck (band), a British rock band
* ''
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go'', a 2008 American children's novel
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Parnall Heck, a 1930s British four-seat cabin monoplane
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NOAAS ''Heck'' (S 591), originally USC&GS ''Heck'', a survey ship
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Heck v. Humphrey'', 1994 United States civil rights case
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Heck cattle
The Heck or Munich-Berlin is a German list of cattle breeds, breed or type of domestic cattle. It was bred in the 1920s by Heinz and Lutz Heck in an attempt to breeding back, breed back the extinct aurochs (''Bos primigenius''). Controversy re ...
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Heck horse
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Heck reaction, a chemical reaction that forms a substituted alkene
See also
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Heck's, a chain of discount department stores based in West Virginia, United States
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